The Life of Richard Steele, المجلد 2

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Houghton Mifflin, 1889
 

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الصفحة 35 - The Earl of Oxford was removed on Tuesday,— " the Queen died on Sunday! What a world is " this, and how does Fortune banter us !" says Bolingbroke.* * Letter to Swift, Aug.
الصفحة 205 - Steele, having declared in his favour with all the ardour of benevolence which constituted his character, promoted his interest with the utmost zeal, related his misfortunes, applauded his merit, took all the opportunities of recommending him, and asserted that "the inhumanity of his mother had given him a right to find every good man his father.
الصفحة 27 - Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time.
الصفحة 221 - As you shall answer the contrary at your peril. Given under my hand and seal, the First of July 1652. OLIVER CROMWELL.* Note. In the Archives of Trinity College Cambridge is a patent duly signeted, and superscribed "Oliver P.," of date "Whitehall, 21st October 1654;" appointing Richard Pratt, " who, as we are informed, is very poor and necessitous...
الصفحة 31 - A Letter to a Member of Parliament concerning the Bill for Preventing the Growth of Schism.
الصفحة 7 - The public spirit of the Whigs, set forth in their generous encouragement of the author of the Crisis ; with some observations on the seasonableness, candour, erudition, and style of that treatise.
الصفحة 43 - With how skilful patience have I known you comply with the vain projects which pain has suggested to have an aching limb removed by journeying from one side of a room to another ! how often, the next instant, travelled the same ground again, without telling your patient it was to no purpose to change his situation ! If there are such beings as guardian angels, thus are they employed.
الصفحة 238 - The Crisis of Property. An argument proving that the Annuitants for ninety-nine years, as such, are not in the condition of other subjects of Great Britain, but by compact with the Legislature are exempt from any new direction relating to the said Estates.
الصفحة 278 - Phil. I think I remember the silly accident. What made ye, you oaf, ready to fall down into the street ? Tom. You know not, I warrant you — you could not guess what...
الصفحة 409 - STEELE. Selections from the Tatler, Spectator and Guardian. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by AUSTIN DOBSON. 16mo, $1.25. " A work which is exceedingly well done, and which must have cost the author much labor and research . . . the notes are excellent.

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